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Excl: Edinburgh University begins compulsory layoffs with department set to be axed Seven staff in the Instute for Academic Development are set to lose their jobs when the department closes

Just as I finish all my midterm marking where I point numerous students towards IAD resources, I read that the department has been axed. Ouch 😩 thetab.com/2025/10/31/e...

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Amazing turnout at #ucuedinburgh strikes today and a good feeling of solidarity!

#ucuedinburgh huge turnout at Edinburgh Uni strike today. Numbers growing! No to compulsory redundancies!

When you no longer know if news is real news, or 'the onion' news!

Are you interested in a PhD studentship to explore social inequalities in attitudes towards school, work and post-school transitions? Then you may want to apply to our exciting new project!!

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Intimate Partner Violence in Young People’s Relationships – Care and Justice for Whom? - Scottish Graduate School of Social Science This study will explore the role of education, and the place of schools in both seeking to prevent and address IPV amongst young people. It will consider how the issue of IPV among young people is und...

Interested in studying for a PhD at the @uoe-sps.bsky.social - we have a funded studentship available looking at the issue of IPV in young people's relationships: www.sgsss.ac.uk/studentship/...

Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted Self-styled ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother Tristan had been banned from leaving Romania since December 2023

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...

#Trump priorities

"Their flight to the US comes after the Financial Times reported that Trump’s special envoy, Richard Grenell, had spoken to the Romanian foreign minister, Emil Hurezeanu, about the Tate brothers at this month’s Munich Security Conference."

Trump faces Truth Social backlash over AI video of Gaza with topless Netanyahu and bearded bellydancers Users of president’s own social media site criticise video showing reimagined Gaza featuring Trump and Israeli PM sipping cocktails

As the old adage goes: when people tell you who they are, listen.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Dear, did you say pastry?’: meet the ‘AI granny’ driving scammers up the wall Daisy’s dithering frustrates phone fraudsters and wastes time they could be using to scam real people

Aside from detecting cancer in scans, this must surely be the best use of AI I have seen so far: www.theguardian.com/money/2025/f...

Family courts get new guidance on 'parental alienation' in family court battles Family Courts should give more weight to allegations of domestic abuse than to claims of so called

Positive to see new guidance to courts in England and Wales about the pseudo-science that is parental alienation: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...